Winter storm moves off as cold, clearing conditions forecast
A first winter storm in the Southeast exits to the Atlantic with clearing and continued cold ahead. In the Triad cloudy and chilly today with highs 38 to 42, tonight mostly cloudy, Sunday warmer with highs in the 50s. Coastal winds, gale warnings and minor flooding risk persist along the Outer Banks, with mixed precipitation possible in the mountains and Piedmont today.
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Atlantic
Triad
North Carolina
Piedmont
South Carolina
Seven Die in North Carolina Weekend Crashes
The Highway Patrol reports seven weekend fatalities in North Carolina. Four deaths occurred in an ice skid near Dunn, three in a New Bern wreck. The toll for the year reaches 1,637, up 40 from last year. A Washington DC Evergreen family drowned when their car flipped in a Dunn area creek. Victims are Faye Haynes Stephens and her children Walter Cecil Stephens Jr, Ricky Record Stephens, Cecilia Amelia Stephens. Three Cherry Point Marines died when their car struck a tree in New Bern. victims are Dale Russell Wessels, William Moyer II, and Joseph S Barca.
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Highway Patrol
North Carolina
Dunn
New Bern
Washington, D. C
Evergreen
N.C
Interstate 95
Faye Haynes Stephens
Walter Cecil Stephens Jr
Ricky Record Stephens
Cecilia Amelia Stephens
Cherry Point Air Base
Dale Russell Wessels
William Moyer II
Joseph S. Barca
Southern GOP plots 1972 strategy in Memphis rally
Southern Republican leaders wrapped day one of a two day meeting with a country music rally in Memphis as Vice President Spiro Agnew waited to appear. Julie and David Eisenhower were named honorary Tennessee citizens by Governor Winfield Dunn with David made a Tennessee colonel. Ray Acuff stirred the crowd promising campaign involvement as Republicans noted gains in the South and urged broader gains in the legislature next year. Arthur Fletcher praised Nixon’s record and contrasted Democratic positions on Vietnam and prosperity.
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Chris French
Associated Press
Memphis, Tenn
Spiro Agnew
Julie
David Eisenhower
Tennessee
Winfield
Dunn
David
Ray Acuff
Acuff
Dan Kuykendall
R-Tenn
Jim Collins
R-Tex
South
Collins
Nixon
Arthur Fletcher
U.S
United Nations
Fletcher
Vietnam
Arsenic Suspected in Death Of North Carolina Boy
Nash County Sheriff says 11 year old David Radford may have ingested arsenic residue. His 15 year old brother Jessie Mark fell ill and was found to have arsenic poisoning, prompting exhumation and autopsy. The boys lived near Rocky Mount. investigation involves the State Bureau of Investigation.
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Rocky Mount
N.C
Trict
Roy Holdford
Page Hudson
Chapel Hill
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
ROTC Enrollment Drops Across Services
The Pentagon reports 83,130 students enrolled in Army Air Force and Navy ROTC during the current academic year, down from 109,598 last year and earlier years. Officials credit new Nixon legislation boosting scholarships and subsistence allowances to attract more cadets, even as overall service officer needs shrink.
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Pentagon
Asst
Secretary of Defense
Roger T.kelley
Kelley
Nixon
Army
Air Force
Navy
Meredith cites Harvard study alleging black graduates' deaths
Civil rights leader James Meredith claimed a Harvard Law School study found that almost all black graduates had died by their own actions. Harvard denies any such study. Meredith urged economic advancement and entrepreneurship, urging blacks to invest, borrow, and reform inheritance laws to build wealth.
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Gainesville
Fla
James Meredith
Harvard Law School
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Harvard University
Albert M. Sacks
Boston
Sacks
University of Florida
Harvard
New York City
Mississippi
United States
Nixon Christmas tree cut for White House delivery
A 21 foot Fraser fir from Crossnore North Carolina was cut in snow covered mountains and prepared for delivery to the White House Blue Room. North Carolina also provided the national Christmas tree a 65 foot Fraser fir from Pisgah National Forest Haywood County now on the White House lawn to be lighted December 17.
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Crossnore
N.C
Nixon
North Carolina
Blue Room
White House
Washington
Pisgah National Forest
Haywood County
Unemployment Figures Rise Amid Budget Watch
President Nixon weighs a full employment budget as Labor reports unemployment at 6 percent in November after a two month decline. White House officials in Florida say deficit spending is virtually certain to occur under the full employment concept. The government also notes wholesale prices edged up 0.1 percent, while the wage-price freeze shows a three month overall decline.
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Washington
Nixon
Labor Department
White House
Key Biscayne
Fla
James D. Hodgson
Herbert J. Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Egypt Challenges U.N. To Force Israeli Pullback
Egypt opened the United Nations debate by urging the General Assembly to compel Israel to pull back from occupied Arab lands. Mahmoud Riad accused Israel of defying Security Council 242 and urged enforcement measures while Israel argued the move would worsen the Middle East deadlock and threaten a new flare up. Abba Eban prepared to address the assembly with Israel’s position.
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United Nations, N.Y
Egypt
U.N
Middle East
General Assembly
Israel
Mideast
Mahmoud Riad
U.N. Security Council
Council
Riad
Gunnar V. Jarring
Jarring
United Nations
United States
Abba Eban
Pay Board Chief Boldt asserts leadership and policy control
Washington AP reports Pay Board Chairman George Boldt angrily asserted himself at a three day meeting saying he will personally decide how board policies apply in cases and stop fly specking regulations. He promised to focus on major policy questions and to draw the line between policy and application. The board, meeting this week, addressed 450 retroactive pay raises and questioned the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee. Boldt, 67, a U.S. District Judge from Washington state, had earlier sided with public members but later abstained in split votes.
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Brooks Jackson
Associated Press
Washington
George Boldt
Boldt
Tripartie Labor-Management Public Board
Construction Industry Stabilization Committee
Toul
U.S
Washington State
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National Tee Vee
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S. Main
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Heliday Inn
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